Consciousness is like a thread with the outside world, someone is holding the end of the thread and quickly pulling, little by little pulling me out of the chaotic space, opening my heavy eyelids, and the eyes are no longer pitch black, but dim and warm colors.

"Awake?" A deep voice in the ears.

Half a circle of eyes, I met the familiar face, and my first instinct was to look at his eyes, black and bright like an abyss, without a trace of blood red, not even blood. The mood inside was a little worried in the lightness, and the face was slightly gloomy. His gaze shifted, from his face to his body, and it was still the same as before, and it didn't change.

When I looked around again, I found that it was still in the inner stone room of the ancient castle, with lamps lit at the four corners, and the place where I was lying was the fragrant jade bed. It's strange, I pointed my finger on this cold jade before, and I felt cold all over, but now that I've been lying here for so long, I don't feel cold at all, or ...... I was unconscious.

I still felt pain in my drowsiness just now, but now I don't feel it at all, is the pain just an illusion I imagined? Looking at myself again, I was still wearing that jacket, neatly and neatly, and even the zipper was pulled down to the neck I was used to, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. Finally, he fixed his eyes on his face and asked, "What's wrong with me?" "The voice was dull and hard to hear, but strangely I didn't feel a dry throat.

Sheng Shiyao's eyes turned slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Just now, after I put the green glass beads into the eyes of the relief bat, your body suddenly fell soft, and your eyes were godless as if you had lost your soul, and you couldn't wake up no matter how you called it. After I carried you to this cold jade bed, you closed your eyes and fell into a deep stupor. I've tried all kinds of methods, and even pushed the acupuncture points around your body, but I couldn't wake you up, and I knew that you had fallen into a second-layer dream again. What did you dream about this time that made you sink so deep that you almost couldn't wake up? ”

Two-story dreams? Did I really have nightmares again? Wait a minute, he said that after the green glass beads were put into the eyes of the bat, I was like a lost soul, and then I fell asleep and fell into the second-layer dream, so the two-story carvings and stone platform that we saw before, the door of life and death, the ice sculpture, and Ying Ning, are they all my dreams?

How can it be? I tried to climb up to see the bat relief, but after several attempts I couldn't move, except for the fingers that could be bent, the whole part of my body became numb and unconscious. "Why can't I move?"

Sheng Shiyao said: "You have been immersed in a dream for too long this time, and it must have been you who did it with someone in your dream, so it caused your whole body to be soreness and weakness in reality, and it is normal to be frozen by this cold jade bed, and you are unconscious for the time being." ”

"Are you saying that if I have pain in my dreams, it will carry over to reality?"

He paused and replied, "Yes." ”

Is it really a dream? This dream was so real that it took almost all my strength. I wanted to turn my head to look at the eyes of the relief, but it was very laborious to move, Sheng Shiyao asked me what I was doing, I thought for a moment and said, "Can you carry me to the relief?" I wanted to look at the relief, why did I suddenly faint? ”

He looked back and said, "Don't look at it, it was the evil shadow of Qinglizhu that made you faint." When the two green glass beads are put into the eye of the embossed bat, it will produce an illusion, impacting the brain waves, and you will fall soft when you can't bear it for a while. It's best not to leave this cold jade bed for the time being, if you sink into your dreams for too long, your mind and soul will be a little scattered, and it will help you gather and recover. ”

"And how long am I going to lie on this?"

"After a while, you'll be able to move on the ground after your consciousness returns."

Hearing him say this, I was relieved, if I were to lie in this cold bed all the time unconscious, how uncomfortable it would be. My head was a little groggy, as I used to do every time I woke up from a deep sleep. Sensing that Sheng Shiyao's eyes had been staring at my face and not leaving, he couldn't help asking, "What are you looking at?" ”

He said, "Aren't you going to tell me what nightmare you just had?" ”

My heart trembled, that nightmare...... Can you say that? In the end, in his oppressive gaze, I still told the dream that was too real, but only about the discovery of a giant black-winged bat in the dark, and the fact that he and Ying Ning were lying on a stone platform, and what happened behind me was hidden. I don't know if the dream is too real, just thinking about that thing makes me feel bored and uncomfortable.

In the end, I still expressed my true thoughts in my heart: "I don't know why, I always feel that this dream is too real, in the past, my dream warning was just a nihilistic form, it may be realistic, but most of it is a psychological suggestion, I have never been like this time, specific to every detail, the ingenuity of the mechanism, and the details of the carving, and even the form of Ying Ning and the wizard, I can remember it very clearly." ”

Sheng Shiyao didn't analyze it immediately after listening, but frowned and pondered, and after a while, he picked me up. I didn't know what he was going to do, but my instinct reached out and grabbed the hem of his shirt, and I found that my hand was already moving. He picked me up and didn't leave the cold bed, but shifted me to a different position so that I could just see the black-winged bat relief not far away.

At this time, two green glass beads have been placed in its eyes, and the blue light is faint and cold. Uncontrollably, I thought of the real giant bat, which was more than ten times the size of this one-size-fits-all relief, with heavy wings like an oversized black curtain, its eyes shot blood-red light, and it looked down coldly at the creatures beneath its feet.

"Tiny?" Sheng Shiyao's call came from my ears, and I came back to my senses in a daze, only to see him frowning at me, "You were almost affected by the green glass beads again and fell into the chaotic space." Take a few deep breaths to calm your heart rate, and you have to adjust your mind to resist the interference of the beads. ”

Listening to his instructions, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath several times, discarded distracting thoughts, and when I opened my eyes again, I no longer felt trembling, and my mind no longer had cranky thoughts. When he saw that I had calmed down, he said, "You are lying here, and I will go and check if there is a mechanism behind the green glass beads, and see if there will be the two-story carvings and the stone platform that you said will be raised." ”

Sheng Shiyao walked up to the relief, first observed the whole body of the relief, and then reached out to take off the two green glass beads, and waited for a while, but there was no movement, whether it was the relief or the floor tiles, there was no sound of any mechanism activation. When I thought of something, I couldn't help but remind: "Maybe it has something to do with the order in which the beads are placed, you try to put it on the right side first, and then put it on the left." ”

He did as I said, put the bead on the right side, waited for it to be silent, and then put another one on the left, but it still didn't move. He looked back at me and raised an eyebrow slightly, and I was silently stunned.

Before, we saw the relief after entering the stone room, and found that the green glass bead was actually its eye, and it existed on the right side, and lacked it on the left, so Sheng Shiyao put the bead on his body into the left eye hole. It stands to reason that at this time, the relief should spit out the stone ring in its mouth, pull the stone ring, and there will be a stone slab in the middle of its body to move to the left and right, revealing the first layer of carving. But now there is no movement, is it really all my imagination in a dream?

If it is a dream, and every dream I have a foreshadowing, then what does this dream foreshadow me?

Sheng Shiyao interrupted my thoughts of running away again: "Let's try another order." He picked up the beads at the same time, put them in at the same time, then took the right side, then the left side, then the right side, and then the left side, and in the process, the relief did not change at all, and it remained unmoving. In the end, I only heard him ask, "Are you at ease?" There is no mystery in these two beads at all. ”

"But ......," I asked, "why did the thieves take only one?" ”

"Because there's something wrong with the beads themselves, haven't you noticed? Just one bead will not work on you at all, but if both beads are put in, there will be some strange power that makes people hallucinate. At the beginning, after entering the stone chamber, the person must have been hallucinating due to lack of concentration, and later took off one of the beads to break the illusion. This must also be the reason why people in Huang Xingyuan's vein regard this bat relief as a dark demon god. ”

It seems that everything can be explained, but in my heart, I feel that this reason is a bit far-fetched, and where does Huang Xingyuan's secret technique come from? They call it the occult and it must have something to do with the bat.

Just when I was muffled, I suddenly heard a movement from there, and when I looked closely, I found Sheng Shiyao squatting in front of the relief, burying his head in the head and not knowing what he was looking at. I was so anxious that I wanted to go over to investigate, but I was weak and could only ask, "Did you find anything?" ”

Sheng Shiyao stood up and moved out of the way, and from a distance at the foot of the relief, a stone brick was picked up and placed aside. "What's the matter with that stone brick?" It's so far away that you can't tell the difference. Sheng Shiyao glanced at me, walked back quickly and picked me up, "Go and see for yourself, so you don't have to lie down in a state of uncertainty." ”

After a few steps came to the relief, he laid me on the ground and helped me to sit down. I saw that just in front of the foot of the bat relief, the floor tiles were lifted aside, and a layer of foundation stones was laid underneath, but in the middle there was a groove dug in the middle, about two inches deep, and the shape of the groove was still rectangular, about the size of a purple gold box. And at the bottom of the pit wrote a sentence: This technique is given to those who are destined, hoping to devote themselves to practicing and relieving the world.

I was stunned that the handwriting that should have appeared on the rising stone platform was actually here! I can't believe that it was a dream, because even the handwriting and the size of the words are the same.

Sheng Shiyao said: "Your dream should be like this, but after all, it is a dream, and there will be deviations." There's nothing wrong with this relief, and I've just taken a closer look at its wings, which extend from the wall, and it's impossible to move up as you said. At that time, the man probably found this movable floor tile carefully, so as to find the secret technique hidden inside, he thought that it was given to him by the bat relief, and was illusionized by its two green glass beads, and even later when he practiced the secret art, he found that there would be a bat totem on his body, so he deified it. ”